skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when during the 2020 civil rights protests in the US people were talking about the Geneva convention and calling what the police did "in violation" of it, especially wrt chemical warfare, only to be surprised to find out it doesn't apply outside formal wars.

I think if we want to make comparisons, an important difference is that Gaza has been existing in a limbo where Israel insists it's a sovereign territory because Israel withdrew from it but also insists it's part of Israel because they want to control its borders and what goes in and comes out of it.

Also, in addition to everything that happens in Gaza, Palestinian Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank have also been targeted by Israel despite Hamas being largely confined to Gaza.
Heat is made of phonons, essentially dispersed noise inside material. Energy can be transmitted using photons (you are thinking of infra red, but very hot objects also emit higher frequencies, in visible spectrum and sometimes even into xrays), but this time it's about vaporisation not from infra-red, but from visible light (green has strongest effect) without any actual heating of molecules.
No, this was my remark about being compatible.
As an Asian, this is really scary, and reminds me of Communist times where people are often asked to write "self reflections".
Yeah, fully agree. Tried to get into Sketch (multiple) times actually via their 30 day trial. But I've repeatedly run out of time testing details and special cases next to the job, so Figma it is.

For note taking tools it's also hard. You only get to know the tool and how well you can work with it only after you spend time with it and have some content in there. Hard to do in 14 days.

So letting users evaluate the core part of your service without time limit makes sense and it's good to see a successful example of that.
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I agree with that. Note: Right now, if you [add] but don't pick a category, your task disappears without warning or prompting. Poof, it's gone.

Suggestions:

1. For "delegated" tasks, add a person to delegate to. Also, maybe add "today/tomorrow/someday" choices for "do later"

2. Sometimes it is hard to decide what to "do now". It would be nice if you incorporated some kind of Eisenhower Matrix idea. So, the ability to tag a task and important/not-important and urgent/not-urgent and maybe automatically move tasks to your categories accordingly.
You don't see the difference between "x must be y always everywhere even in tiny groups" and "start skeptical if x isn't y in big groups"?

I don't know how much simpler I can make this. Those statements are not the same.
> but exceptionally well managed?

Or did it simply benefit being done in a time where the critical components were less valuable? After all, projects like Apollo reveal to us new uses for materials, people, etc. so they tend to become more valuable afterwards.
Yes I don't disagree with any of those.
>I added an unlimited trial, a.k.a. a free tier.

>What happened next?

>Overall sign ups increased

Top of the funnel increase is great, but I would be keen to understand whether overall revenue went up. Sometimes free tier attract the wrong type of customers
Makefiles are mostly declarative and very definitely turing complete when you want that. That's a good compromise, simple stuff is simple and complex stuff is possible.

All a rigidly non-turin-complete build tool means is the day will come where you have to throw it away and rewrite everything in a more powerful language, probably at the last minute and with a bunch of fires taking light around you.
This is exactly why they need to charge.
Ask HN: Good sources of math exercises for ~10-17 y/o?
I have two kids, 10 & 12, and I'd like to provide them with some math homework that is at least somewhat tracking their current and upcoming "Common Core" work. The school isn't assigning any homework, and I am disappointed at how thin their knowledge of the topics is despite getting good grades. The market, both online and in print, is awash with material, but much of it is really poor quality. Often it is trying way too hard to put some new/cute/fun spin on topics that really just need pen, paper, and practice. So many videos, contrived stories, artwork, ... my kid is 12, not 5.

Looking for any sites or book series folks have found useful. Ideally, these would be printable since they have to show their work on tests and are quite weak at this, especially with so much of their work exclusively on Chromebooks.
Hi poster here, note that ars technica has it's own comment section and it may be worth reading the comments as well as the article.

I think we're going to be seeing TPM requirements in a lot more things soon. Almost certainly DRM that requires TPM chips will be coming within a few years.
Programmer's job isn't writing code - it's solving customer problems. And it's unlikely that customers will stop having (and creating new) problems.

"No job" is only a problem for someone who refuses to learn and move on. It's similar to having a child - first you have a job as a technician, then teacher, then mentor and lastly you are out of job until your customer makes you grandkids to care for, or something. ;-)
Those distinctions are irrelevant. Education was free in USSR. Access to math circles and specialized math schools was also free. It was not necessary to hire a tutor or pay for advanced classes to get admitted, unless we’re talking about the Conservatory or MGIMO.

Source: I was born and received education in USSR, so can tell Soviet propaganda from reality.
I guess I have a problem with being blasted with paid next.js/node.js templates while having a notification set up for these keywords on HN. It feels like this is just an ad for your paid template. It's a highly congested market segment and I get you need to funnel/guide leads into your checkout page but this is not the place.
Apple's attempt to stop fingerprinting through required reason API seems useless
> The idea that, as a consumer, I'm going to sit down and fully evaluate a piece of software over the course of 7/14/30 consecutive days to then make a purchasing decision is bizarre.

But that's exactly what you described yourself as doing. You downloaded the software, used it, found that it satisfied your needs, and were familiar enough with the software to recognize that you needed it again three months later.

The real bizarre thing is that someone can blame the software provider for giving away free use of their software, or for "only" allowing them to use it for 30 days for free.

Honestly, I don't understand what model would actually satisfy you while also leaving a window for the software developer to get paid. If someone gave you 14 separate days to run a trial and you utilized the software on the same 3 month schedule, you'd have over 3 years to "evaluate" the software without paying a dime.

> The idea that, as a consumer, I'm going to sit down and fully evaluate a piece of software over the course of 7/14/30 consecutive days to then make a purchasing decision is bizarre.

I don't understand this complaint, either. You already used the software, saw that it solved your problems, and then knew it well enough to know that you needed it again 3 months later. What more do you want? A full year to think about it while it solves your problems?

Would you prefer if the software was usable in "trial" mode indefinitely, but you couldn't actually output anything (save files, get non-watermarked output) until you purchased it? That's the only alternative I can think of that would help you try the software longer, but then you would be forced to pay on the very first use in your example above. That actually leaves you worse off, not better.

This whole conversation reminds me of why it's so much easier to deal with B2B and Enterprise software: With cheap consumer software, you get people who will complain to the ends of the earth about your $20 software or jump through hoops to avoid paying less than the cost of a couple drinks to purchase software that clearly solves their needs.
It is my experience that unless you have high variable costs, you should be far more worried about people adopting and using your product than you should be about giving too much away for free.
Yes that is a lesson I took from it, I'm not sure if it was this class or another one that showed how crypto on a computer could be defeated by monitoring its power consumption while checking a password. Even though the code knew to wait a set amount of time whether or not the password was correct, it wasn't drawing any power after the first incorrect digit allowing attackers to workout the correct digits one at a time.
This is a very poor advice at deniable encryption. The structure of the ciphertext is visible to the reader - when you get your decryption you know that it is one of many.

I presume the true deniable decryption would work in a way that fully hides the presence of the alternate contents. Note, however, that most encryption schemes are specifically designed to be non-deniable, so you'd be caught by simply using organically grown crypto before even decrypting anything.

For those interested in paranoia, I suggest looking into steganography and forward-secrecy schemes with transient secrets.
Except Adobe doesn’t let you do that, you pay for an entire year month-by-month; cancelling early still leaves you with a bill.
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He addresses that in one of the links.
You are a parody of your own point and you don’t even see it. Truly remarkable.
These articles scare my mom and she gets convinced she will be hacked. I wish there was a way to write stories like this to make it clear it's a real, important issue, but not directly to you. Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest way to bank yet invented, but she sees articles like this and ends up thinking exactly the opposite.
It’s an annoying arguably dark pattern and easy to game.

Buying behavior is a psychological concept driven by time and attention. A persons mental wallet is open for a limited period of time. The goal of the trial is a conversion to sale.

The scenarios you describe are edge case-ish, and often times companies will accommodate them as edge cases.
> This is false. Israel does not control Egypt's borders.

Of course it does. It closed the crossing shortly after Oct 7. Crossing it, requires Israel approval and inspections. The moment Egypt stops observing Israel's rules, it will bomb the crossing. It did bomb it already a few times last year in order to close it. Israel already stated that it will operate anywhere in Gaza militarily, that includes the Rafah crossing, and it does.

That's pretty much what anyone would consider being in control of a crossing, effectively.

In addition, despite this crossing being between Palestine and Egypt, the agreement that splits the roles of who does what at the crossing is between Egypt and Israel as part of Israel-Egypt peace treaty https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-real...

So Israel does partially control it even in this "legal" aspect. It kinda makes sense given that Gaza is still considered an occupied territory by UN. Since when occupied territories control their own corssings with other countries?

> By CPJ's own account, that list is not verified:

Yes, that goes back to Israel refusal for independent foreign journalists presence in Gaza. Or ICC investigators. Convenient.
We already had one flamewar going about Israel.

I know it's annoying when these things get declared offtopic because of course they're connected by a sequence of associations—and you're right, it doesn't take that long of a sequence—but if you think about it from the overall topic of the thread, hopefully it makes more sense.
I want to add something to the previous response.

> A better analogy would be if the Republic of Ireland settled its citizens there en masse and provided them with weapons,

This did actually happen, but the other way around. The British settled citizens en masse in Ireland and provided them with weapons. This was called the Ulster Plantation. Even today many people in the North of Ireland speak with a dialect derived from the Scots language.

Interestingly, Ronald Storrs, the first British military governor in Jerusalem, was recorded to have said that the Balfour Declaration’s purpose was to form a “little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.” [0]

> Obviosly, Republic of Ireland doesn't employ this tactic

No, and I think the comparison is a little unfair. It's true that these things can be abused tactically but it's not always the case.

0: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/winston-churchill-s...
WordPerfect is an interesting example: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/wordperfect.html

WordStar is another one, used by George RR Martin et al: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/words...
I thought alluding to this part in Yes, Prime Minister is going to get across the idea of questionable trustworthiness of surveys. I did try to get the survey details from the given page though, but for some reason the survey page is not loading for me.

Although the protests in Capital against the regime and ministers are pretty revealing . This is a month old link and things might have changed, for the better or worse.

About peace though, it can only prevail with disarmament and talks. And reconciliation. I think we have too many actors, powerful actors, who doesn't want it. Yitzhak Rabin didn't die in his sleep, for one.
That's besides the point. If I'm passed on a short url, I need to trust that the link points somewhere safe, that all the link shortener does is return a Status Code 301 with the actual link, and if I open the short link again that it won't take me to a malicious site.

By design, this URL shortener service does neither, and to me it feels too risky to even consider opening a link.

But that's just me. I'm sure plenty of people will find this useful.
You’re projecting culturally-determined views about what “rich and happy” people do onto others. Rich people taking up sports and eating in moderation is a WASP thing. It’s much less of a thing in the south. And it’s not a thing at all in say the Indian subcontinent, where it’s unusual for adults to play sports.
I've never seen this site before as I usually just use justwatch.com. Gonna check this one out though. Thanks for linking!
It's not that surprising to see China's PLA create their own Pegasus-style program. The focus on iOS is also not too surprising, given that most high value targets are potential Apple customers. I'm not sure if this speaks to a lack of security capabilities of iOS compared to Android, which seems to be implied by the article.
Essential part of my home studio audio stack (Serato / Ableton / OBS / BlackHole / Aggregate/Multi-output devices in Audio MIDI setup).

Agree with others in this post that it's WAY too hard to get a stable stack on OSX and that a tool like BlackHole should be standard in the OS.
Yeah that's kind of the idea. If it's harder to communicate about doing illegal things, it's harder to do illegal things.

That's a feature, not a bug.
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The $5 password circumvention device comes to mind. https://xkcd.com/538/
Yet another reason to stick with Win10 absolutely as long as possible. As if we didn't have enough already.
I vote for renaming it Kubernates, sounds way more high tech
Thorn in a HaizeStack test for evaluating long-context adversarial robustness
Also, recommending to normal people that they should use their iPhone in Lockdown Mode (as this article does) is terrible advice. It comes with some significant tradeoffs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
So what would make it fake?
I'm not sure if you're questioning whether the story was true or whether it was important or whether it was offtopic for HN.

If it was untrue, then we will have made a bad moderation call and should have waited. However, today has brought more 3rd party reports on the story, albeit still from ideologically slanted publications (e.g. https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-news/mit-bans-controversial...), so I think the odds of it being true are getting a bit higher.

If you mean it wasn't important, that's a matter of preference. There's no story on the front page that everyone thinks is important. It's enough if enough do.

If you mean it was offtopic for HN, I've addressed that in a bunch of other places.
Everything is entropy in the end.
It gets even more funny when you realize that devices & browsers let you set data per device that you can just retrieve later ...

Why bother fingerprinting when you can just assign them an id and retrieve it later.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck

https://engineering.deptagency.com/securely-storing-data-on-...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...
> The presence of such in rare cases (e.g. Belmont)

I thought it's fairly common to live in a town with a town hall meetings or PTA meetings? Or visit city hall or met your city council in elementary school?

It's the norm in most suburban towns (use the local PTA meeting as the Town Meeting instead depending on the suburb).

If you live within a big city, then it's a different story of course (city government is absolutely not community driven), but only 12% of Americans live in Urban areas/cities [0] and 69% live in suburbs.

[0] - https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cusrancvs.pdf
Oh well if the CEO says so

Edit: To be clear, you have read what’s not being said: no agency is funding this or taking delivery of anything. With internal R&D you can make any outlandish claims and no one can call you out on it. (Under contract R&D, your outlandish claims are tied to a statement of work.)
Some more technical info that browsers nowadays have O(1) behavior when using Array.shift() [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348772
Similarly I sped up a python script by 3 orders of magnitude by running a linter on it; the script intended to cache a value for reuse, but neglected to actually reuse the value, resulting in an unused-variable warning in the linter.
I read that probably all truffle oil is fake. Hard to find a definitive statement.
> I would pay for it by the 21st time.

In your example above (needing it every 3 months) it would take over 5 years to reach that point.

I'm going to guess that within those 5 years it's likely that the developer would have released a new major release (with a new trial period), or that you would have reinstalled your OS (resetting the trial timer), or that you would have gotten a new computer...

In other words, you'd never pay for the software.
I’m not the person you were originally interacting with, so I wasn’t “pivoting” - sorry to cause confusion!

There’s not really any doubt that the press feel they’re targeted, I think some have gone on the record about it. I don’t know how well we can really test such a claim absent the cooperation of the IDF, which will never happen.

My comment is meant to be a joke about how some of this stuff is grimly academic. If your army has enough xenophobic misanthropes and incompetent reservists who are willing to shoot at anything not wearing their uniform, the notion of a class of people being “targeted” is rendered redundant.

The Hebrew-speaking hostages who were killed while trying to surrender were just one aspect of this conflict that someone writing a really dark antiwar comedy might have come up with.
On "unauthorized" -- how would this not be public domain at this point?
Whether brains or LLMs, claiming that "in reality all they can do" is X seems dubious, given that a system can have properties that its constituents do not have on their own. As an explanation of the emerging complexity of what "they can do" it is fundamentally unsatisfying.
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I'm guessing why Australia is so important to have in a partnership is the uranium reserves, no? In addition to geopolitics of course.

Also, I would love to have the French as part of AUKUS (but that _would_ really mess up a great acronym). The reason being I'm impressed with the French's nuclear nuclear experience through power generation (although, it's been a bit stagnent the last 20+ years). I'm curious if this was just too complicated to broker for some reason (4 parties instead of 3) or there was another reason I'm missing. As the article points out, French submarine reactors use different fuel, which could be a reason, but that seems like something that could be figured out given that we're talking about a clean sheet design anyway.
>infringed on copyright

It still isn't clear if training on copyrighted data is infringement or not. Please stop spreading misinformation
These are not the kinds of bollards discussed in the article. Lots of cars going at any kind of speed could cross over a lot of these, as these are like 7" (200mm) tall. An F-150 has over 8" of ground clearance from the factory. It would drive over these without even noticing it.

Bollards like in the article are usually a few feet tall. Like, 30-40" tall, like 800+mm tall.

Note these are literally just the hemispheres, not any of the related mounting equipment. For these to actually be useful at stopping cars, you'll then want additional mounting equipment. So its not really $20 anyways for these things which as mentioned aren't even going to be very useful at stopping any cars.

Finally, shipping from Russia to the US is probably pretty expensive and difficult these days.
Is it really possible to talk about DEI without politics eventually? Seems like we are ignoring the elephant of the room
Exactly! Sniffing passwords out of coffee makers is hard to scale. Lots of tech needed/knowledge. Wrenchs scale linearly with people given wrenchs, and typically one does not need training to apply brute force with wrench. You may be able to save on labor even as other primates can use the wrenchs better and with more force than humans.
$500 per year is a pathetically low amount for a dev who is expected to make his company hundreds of thousands or millions per year. Plumbers and HVAC specialists have tools worth tens of thousands of dollars.
>Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest way to bank yet invented, but she sees articles like this and ends up thinking exactly the opposite.

I do not know why people think this. I make sure nothing Financial Related is on any kind of Cell Phone. With the closed system, you have no idea what Apple or Google is seeing.

I miss the days before Cell Phones, where there were a lot of regulations surrounding Land Lines.
At what point can we say 'via the global economy'?